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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] > Taiwan is standing strong<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>He’s blaming Trump’s win in 2016 on Assange.<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Regards,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dan<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Indeed sir? I don’t understand how WikiLeaks could have contributed to that. The information posted on Wiki was not even classified, and Assange didn’t leak it, he only published what someone else leaked. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On the other hand, actual classified information was found on an unsecured server and was published not by WikiLeaks but by a Chinese news source. Neither the Chinese news source nor Assange hold or ever held US citizenship. Both were merely publishers, who we do not generally hold accountable for publishing leaks.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The actual leak of the Secretary of State material was never revealed, but classified material was found on the laptop of a felon Carlos Danger, who was caught by the local constabulary after he was posting inappropriate material to a teenage girl. Her father saw it, reported it to the authorities, the laptop was seized, authorities discovered the information, passed it to the FBI, no one was ever charged.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>WikiLeaks had nothing to do with any of that.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I don’t understand how Assange is being blamed for something Carlos Danger did, or rather whoever leaked the information to Danger. I suspect Mrs. Danger was the culprit, but for some mysterious reason she has never faced legal consequences.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dan I am puzzled.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>